hand tool box

Very cool! Nice tool placement! You should get a lot of use out of it.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Love your “saw keepers”! Nice…...

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

very well done , well laid out . great work

Very nice, how did you finish the project?

I’ve got a bit of spalted maple and I would like to make it stand out proud.

-- Casey, Engineer, Escanaba, MI

Very nicely done! I’m just plain jealous. Your choice of wood made a huge difference, that’s for sure!

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

Great tool organizer.

Real nice! Way to go – we’re proud of ya!

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Great tool chest. nice job and great wood selection.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Hello oicurn2it2;
—-this is one great, ’keeper of the tools ’ and hand tools at that!
Makes one wonder why they think they need those corded and battery powered tools when there are boxes such as this to feel up. I’ve often thought about just what would be the minimum number of tools that it takes to build with wood….that answer would stagger the minds of many in todays woodworking world….any-ways this is your ’hand tool box ’ post, so I should shut up and give you your ’justified honor ’ on the great construction and all those wonder-full hand tools you have there!

I truly love this box, and the wood species is something to be proud of, and great ‘wood joinery’ even if on the fly. I would have to say that unless one knows how to do ‘wood joinery’ on the fly….what use is it anyways….!

Thanks for sharing this project with us here at LJ, and again….,

Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Great organizer! Love that spalted maple, too!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Awesome box my friend. One day I will be so organized. My shop is a mess.

-- Please visit me at http://dustynewt.com

Very nice indeed, may I ask the titles and authors of the two books? I can almost make out one of them.

Thanks.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Brother LJ, I just LOVE your work. But your blurry pictures are holding out on the visual fullness of your marvelous labors in the wood medium

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

wonderful choice of wood, I think, for your this hand tool storage.
It definitely has been made for your tools. Well done

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

You really did a nice job. That will be a beautiful addition to your shop.

-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com

This is a great site to get the motivation going. Nice job, lucky tools.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

thanks all quite a comliment ,
yooper>just 3 coats of lacquer for now..
RobS>the two books are , The Workbench Book by Scott Landis & The Workbench Lon Schleining . and i highly recomend both
Todd A> so true and my apologies about the shots ,a new camera is on the list thanks again to LJ .

-- "when you think youre going to slow, slow down just a little bit more" .... Pop's

Ahhh – just what you needed! Nice layout.

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Very nice
Now by the looks of it if you buy another plane you’ll have a valid reason to build aother one of those ol’ wooden boxes.
Great choice of wood. You made a fantastic choice on the finish.

-- Ed - Milan, IN

I like your work. You’ve turned out some really unique pieces of work. I’ll be adding you to my buds list so I can follow more closely. My job takes me away from my computer sometimes for days, and even then I just don’t have the time to sit down and surf the site. Here today I just happened to stumble upon this new addition of yours. Cool idea. Today I think I’ll start on mine.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

I want to touch this one. Something about the texture. Not sure if it is the grain or if it is textured. I spent a few weeks texturing beams for an old castle in Birmingham on top of red mountain near the Vulcan. But this reminds me of the finished product I used a 4” grinder with sanding disk to scoop it out and then went back over it with a wire brush on the grinder. But this looks awesome.

-- Wood,clay,metal, and stone are all just materials, until an artist's hand touches them.--TreeFormDesign

I thought my tool cabinet was the bomb-diggity. You put me to shame! SHAME I say! I must to the workshop to redeem myself now! lol :) Very nice work there. In fact, its all very nice. Looks like it would be at home in my rustic log cabin in the Colorado Mountains… ( IF I had one of those, I mean…)

-- Adventure? Heh! Excitement? Heh! A Woodworker craves not these things!

THat’s very nice and exactly what I need. I’ll be right over to pick it up.

Ah, I see a copy of “The Workbench Book” – it’s excellent. Try “The Toolbox Book” too.

-- Tony

A super tool saver well done and organized

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon